Program All conference activities will be in the Stan Fulton Building (Flamingo & Swenson) Wednesday October 22, 2008 8:15-9:15 Registration and Coffee/Rolls 9:15-9:30 Wanda Taylor - Dean of College of Sciences Opening Remarks - Room #130C 9:30-10:30 Invited Speaker: Spyros Magliveras (Chair: Wallis) Room #130C 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break   Chair: Gewali Room #130A Chair: Robbins Room #130B 11:00-11:20 Manuel Welhan Nicole Pace 11:25-11:45 Qinglin Yu Nidhi Singhu 11:50-12:10 Taoye Zhang Nikhil Singhi 12:10-1:30 Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 Invited Speaker: Gary Chartrand (Chair: Salehi) Room #130C 2:30-3:00 Coffee Break   Chair: Myrvold Room #130A Chair: Yucas Room #130B 3:00-3:20 Chao-Chih Chou Iliya Bluskov 3:25-3:45 Alison Marr Pante Stanica 3:50-4:10 Futaba Okamoto Shanzhen Gao 4:15-4:35 Ping Zhang Weizheng Gao 4:40-5:00 Ebrahim Salehi Neville Robbins 5:05-5:25 Wendy Myrvold Tom Brown   Thursday October 23, 2008 8:00-8:30 Registration and Coffee/Rolls 8:30-9:30 Invited Speaker: Catherine Yan (Chair: Magliveras) Room #130C 9:30-10:00 Coffee Break   Chair: Sarvate Room #130A Chair: Cummings Room #130B 10:00-10:20 Cafer Caliskan Rommel Barbosa 10:25-10:45 Hau Chan Vermont Rutherfoord 10:50-11:10 Derek Hein Shaun Sullivan 11:15-11:35 Spencer Hurd Le Anh Vinh 11:40-12:00 Daniela Nikolova-Popova Larry Cummings 12:00-1:30 Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 Keynote Speaker: Douglas Stinson (Chair: Myrvold) Room #130C 2:30-3:00 Coffee Break   Chair: Kwang Room #130A Chair: Shahmohamad Room #130B 3:00-3:20 Ping-Tsai Chung Arie Bialostoki 3:25-3:45 Man Kong Jianmin Ma 3:50-4:10 Sheng-Ping Bill Lo Andrew Schwartz 4:15-4:35 Hsin-Hao Su Yehing Shao 4:40-5:00 Hugo Sun Walter Wallis 5:05-5:25 Tao-Ming Wang Hong Wang 5:30-5:50 Harris Kwong Shahmohamad 6:00-9:00 Reception     (To Be Announced)   Friday October 24, 2008 8:00-9:00 Coffee/Rolls 8:30-9:30 Invited Speaker: Ronald Graham (Chair: Yan) Room #118 9:30-10:00 Coffee Break   Chair: Chopra Room #130A Chair: Yfantis Room #130B 10:00-10:20 Sergey Gubin Yaotsu Chang 10:25-10:45 Sin-Min Lee Ivana Ilic 10:50-11:10 Richard Low Reza Ahangar 11:15-11:35 Ho Kuen Ng Rondong Wang 11:40-12:00 Yung-Chin Wang LeRoy Beasley 12:05-12:25 Vassil Yorgov Evangelos Yfantis 12:30-12:50 Dharam Chopra Alla Levina